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The Actors Bando Mitsugoro I as Hata no Kawakatsu (right), and Otani Hiroemon III as the Manservant (Yakko) Gansuke (left), in the Play Miya-bashira Iwao no Butai (Shrine Pillars on a Stone Base), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Fifteenth Day of the Seventh Month, 1773

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban; diptych.
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  • A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban; diptych.

Date:

c. 1773

Artist:

Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章
Japanese, 1726-1792

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Department

Arts of Asia

Artist

Katsukawa Shunsho

Title

The Actors Bando Mitsugoro I as Hata no Kawakatsu (right), and Otani Hiroemon III as the Manservant (Yakko) Gansuke (left), in the Play Miya-bashira Iwao no Butai (Shrine Pillars on a Stone Base), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Fifteenth Day of the Seventh Month, 1773

Place

Japan (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1768–1778

Medium

Color woodblock print; hosoban; diptych

Dimensions

31.2 × 15.5 cm (12 5/16 × 6 1/8 in.) (right), 31.5 × 15.3 cm (12 3/8 × 6 1/8 in.) (left)

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection

Reference Number

1932.999

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